In Georgia, the percentage of children living in poverty has worsened since 2008, with 26 percent of the state’s children — an estimated 646,000 — living in poverty in 2014. The percentage of children whose parents lack secure unemployment also increased to 31 percent or about 783,000 children for the same time period.

Georgia did, however, see improvement in some education categories, with the percentage of high school students who don’t graduate on time decreasing.